Ted Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber” and serving a life sentence for a series of bombs throughout the United States, was discovered dead in his North Carolina prison cell on Saturday.
The announcement was made by a jail spokeswoman for the Associated Press news agency.
He was 81 years old at the time.
Kaczynski, guilty of one of the explosions that targeted academics, was relocated to North Carolina in 2021 from a high-security prison in Colorado owing to poor health. The reason of death is unknown at this time.
In 1996, Kaczynski was arrested. He was discovered in a makeshift shelter in western Montana.
Between 1978 and 1995, he was convicted of 16 explosions that killed three people and wounded 23 others in various US locales.
Kaczynski mailed the explosives he built at home.
They included an altitude-activated explosive device that detonated on an American Airlines aircraft as planned, altering the way Americans mailed goods and boarded flights.
A threat to blow up a plane near Los Angeles before the last July 4th weekend in 1995 disrupted flights and mail. Later, the “Unabomber” asserted that it was a “line.”
The Harvard-educated mathematician revolted against the impacts of growing technology, leading police on the longest and most costly search in American history.
The FBI nicknamed him “Unabomber” since his initial targets appeared to be universities and airplanes.
